MCM: Ciarán Hinds

We have been remiss in not yet dedicating a Man Candy Monday to Ciarán Hinds. So when a reader sent in a kind donation and made this specific request, I jumped to fix the oversight. As she commented, “He’s still as sexy as he was in the ’90s.” In addition to roles in Game of Thrones and Harry Potter, plus voicework in Justice League and Frozen, Hinds has an impressive historical costume movie and TV resume. Enjoy!

Lot in Excalibur (1981)

Oh I hate this movie, but everyone’s in it, including Ciarán Hinds.

Ashwattaman in The Mahabharata (1990)

Yes, it’s weird for an Irishman to be in this Indian epic (the cast was mostly European), but it’s where he met the French actress he’s been with ever since. They have a daughter together.

About the author

A self-described ElderGoth, Trystan has been haunting the internet since the early 1990s. Always passionate about costume, from everyday office wear to outrageous twisted historical creations, she has maintained some of the earliest online costuming-focused resources on the web. Her costuming adventures are chronicled on her website, TrystanCraft. She also ran a popular fashion blog, This Is CorpGoth, dedicated to her “office drag.”

I haven’t read the book, but judging by what people who did have been saying the showrunners rather improved on the source material. Hickey is a complex character who grows and changes for one thing. It’s incrediblehow they managed to create so much tension out of what is essentially a foregone conclusion – we blitzed through the series in two days because we were on the edge of our seats.

Yeah in the books it switches between a bunch of POV characters like A Song of Ice and Fire, and Hickey’s internal thoughts near the end were weird and about how he was going to make his crony his consort and stuff. Like, you’re starving and cold and marching all day, is anyone really thinking about their evil straight or gay plan to be super straight or gay and rule everyone? I mean maybe he was also crazy at that point but it seemed like a weird choice.

But the book was meticulously researched and very exciting (same deal where you’re on the edge of your seat about how a character will get out of danger, but then you remember no one came back)

OMG, I had forgotten he was in “Excalibur.” Such a silly movie in some ways but he and Helen Mirren and Nicol Williamson made it work..Hinds and Rickman might be my very favorite middle-aged period drama guys. Absolutely the only Captain Wentworth, and the only Rochester I can imagine Jane falling for.

Hinds is the only onscreen Julius Caesar who isn’t a camp cartoon and who comes closest to emboding the real Caesar’s carnality, ruthlessness, and intellect. That said I stopped watching Rome when the insisted on traducing Cleopatra, for shame.

Wonderful Captain Wentworth that he was, seeing the pic of “Lord Tarleton” in the terribly inaccurate ‘Amazing Grace’ just bought up all my grumbles with that film. “Lord”? In the House of Commons? There’s another place for people with those titles! And worse of all, it was supposed to be 1783 in which mid-twenties red-haired VERY gorgeous Banastre Tarleton was in the Carolinas at the head of the British Legion (and later painted by Reynolds, look at that cannon! See here, it’s a wonderful portrait https://goo.gl/images/PBVkWk ). Alright gripe over. Just need to yell at the screenwriters….